A Year in Villefranche sur Mer - Moving to France

Day 2305 (Saturday) 30 th September 2023 Today’s photos… This is the old port in Nice and this is Antibes.   It was another beautiful day – 36C on the thermometer on the balcony.   Pat and Dee invited us for lunch on the top road in our favourite roadside café with the best views but we declined because I want our blue room back. We’ve been busy for a couple of days with the big apartment so today we put all the pictures back up and cleaned everything.  This is it – all finished. September 2023 to be France's hottest September ever Dried sunflowers in a field in Saint-Ciers-sur-Bonnieure, southwestern France (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP) September 2023 is on track to be the hottest September France has ever recorded, according to national weather service Météo France's monthly report. Average temperatures for the whole month, based on data from 30 of the weather stations distributed evenly across the territory, found that temperatures have been 3.6C higher than average seaso

  Day 2304 (Friday) 29 th September 2023 Today’s photos… This is Mandelieu la Napoule and this is Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Huw went up to the big apartment this morning and I joined him and Suzanne a little later. Because Huw had done quite a lot yesterday it only took us three hours to get it done ready for a check-in on Sunday. There was a cruise ship in the bay so it was busy in town. Fact or fiction: 11 rules about French wine (and a couple of myths) (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP) French wine is a heavily mythologised subject, with people keen to tell you all about the 'must follow' rules - we take a look at the facts and the fictions surrounding drinking wine in France. Never drink red wine without food accompanying it For the French,  vin rouge  goes with food, especially if you're serving meat. Red wine is also the traditional accompaniment to the cheese course. As with many of these wine 'rules' older or more conservative French people will stick to the rules